Lienhard (Peter Jakob) SCHALLER (ID #I18219)

By 1579, he was Sr. d'Echandens and councillor at Bern. In 1580, he entered military service against the Turks, then settled in Fribourg, where he converted to Catholicism and took the given names "Peter Jakob". He was bourgeois de Fribourg in 1586.

The von Roth genealogies at the Burgerbibliothek of Bern show Niklaus Schaller and Elsbeth von Diesbach as the parents of the second wife of Antoine Gachet. However, this is not supported by other, more detailed genealogies of the Schaller family. We follow the account posted on the internet by Benoît de Diesbach de Belleroche.